Malinska Beach Quotes & Sayings

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode! — Frank Herbert

A few have become acquainted with Orwell's 1984; because it is both difficult to obtain and dangerous to possess, it is known only to certain members of the Inner Party. Orwell fascinates them through his insight into details they know well, and through his use of Swiftian satire. Such a form of writing is forbidden by the New Faith because allegory, by nature manifold in meaning, would trespass beyond the prescriptions of socialist realism and the demands of the censor. Even those who know Orwell only by hearsay are amazed that a writer who never lived in Russia should have so keen a perception into its life. — Czeslaw Milosz

She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for granted, and she wondered what it would be like, to hang on every beat, fearful that the next might not come. That the throb of life in her chest would suddenly go still. — Tess Gerritsen

I am not an advocate of Enlightenment. On the contrary, I see it as a form of light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the stars. — Roger Scruton

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear. — Voltaire

Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher. — John Steinbeck

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven. — L.A. Paul

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. — Zelig Pliskin

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about. — Niels Bohr

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet. — Junot Diaz

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune? — Zhuangzi

Anything over eight is strictly for show-and-tell — Linda Howard

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing. — Steve Coogan